One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

All things are possible.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.